Ruby's blood holds the secret to the Water that keeps her and her fellow Congregants alive and enriches Darwin West, who has enslaved them for two centuries, but when her romance with an Overseer, Ford, brings her freedom in the modern world, she faces a terrible choice.

Everyday adventures with a girl who can talk to animals! The weather is hot, hot, hot, and the farm animals are getting grumpy. The pigs are arguing with the chickens, and the ducks and newts are sad because their pond has dried up. Where will the water animals live? Luckily, they have the help of Daisy Dawson, but it may take the elegant and snooty cat Trixie to make the rain fall at last. Warm up to the fifth adventure featuring Daisy Dawson, the...

A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive. The drought-or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it--has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become and endless list of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't fill up your pool, don't take long showers. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly,...

Lord Cat lives a lavish lifestyle until drought strikes Hunger Mountain, but when he goes to seek sustenance, he finds much more than food.

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain.

Ten-year-old Cincinnatian Grace Morgan is fed up with the unkempt boy who harrasses her quiet cousin, but she sees things differently when their town is hit by a serious drought and she and her family get a taste of poverty.

Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents; Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel; and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water.

Lydia the patriot: A 12-year-old's life is changed by the Boston Massacre. Kate and the spies: An 11-year-old must choose sides, political and family, in the American Revolution. Betsy's river adventure: a 13-year-old leaves everything familiar in Boston for the frontier town of Cincinnati. Grace and the bully: a 10-year-old experiences poverty during a time of drought and depression.